Spade.



No. 827,884. PATENTED AUG. 7, 1906.

' Fl BITTER.

SPADE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 27. 1905.

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SPADE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. '7, 1906.

Application filed April 27, 1905. Serial No. 257,761.

To all .whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ RITTER, a citizen of the German Empire,residing at Servitut, near Polnisch-Rasselwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany,have invented new and useful Improvements in Spades, of which the tion.

The present invention relates to a novel kind of spade and to means forconnecting up two or more such spades together; and it consists of thedetails of construction hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointedout in theclaim.

In order to render the present specification easily intelligible,reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar lettersof reference denote similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the spade; Fig. 2, a cross-section taken onthe line 1 1 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, an elevation of two spades connected. uptogether; Fig. 4, a plan of the holes made by the spades for plantingpurposes, and Fig. 5 a modified form of connecting up the spades.

The blade (1 of the spade is in the form of a dagger, being pointed andcomposed of two pyramid-shaped parts having their bases placed together,as will be seen from Fig. 2. The handle of the spade may be providedwith orifices c, and the two spades may be connected together by meansof cross-bars d and screws with thumb-nuts, said crossbars extendingeither from about the center of the blade a to one of the orifices c ofthe handle I), or the connecting-bars f may be parallel to each other,as shown in Fig. 5, in which case the cross-bars are provided withorifices andare secured to the handle and blade of the spade by means ofscrews and thumbnuts. When the spades are thus connected up, the holesforplanting purposes may be very regularly and easily made, as will beseen at e in Fig. 4.

This kind of spade is very convenient to handle and cuts well and easilyinto the soil. The formation of the blade efiectually prevents the edgesfrom getting rough and turned or notched.

I claim as my invention In combination, two or more implementsfor makingholes in the ground, each implement constituting an independent utensil,crossed stays to connect the said implements together and means forattaching the free ends of said cross-stays at diiierent points in thehandles of said implements.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

FRANZ BITTER. Witnesses:

LoUIs KATZ, ALBERT SCHENK.

